‘Nother meme, this one from Rachel Singer Gordon, which asks librarian bloggers, which five non-library-related-blogs do you read?
When I first saw this on Walt’s blog, I thought, just five? I could list twenty blogs off the top of my head – food blogs, language blogs, lit blogs, and just general people blogs! Still, if I’m going to play I will pick, out of my list of twenty:
- Global Voices Online. Thanks to the power of RSS I can occasionally take whirlwind skim tours of what’s going on in the world. And whenever there’s some major event happening somewhere it’s nice to be able to hear from local people rather than just relying on our extremely selective traditional ‘news’ media.
- Eating Asia. I think this is my favourite food blog. I get all hungry and nostalgic when Robyn writes about Malaysian food, and love learning about cuisines from other parts of Asia. And the pictures on this blog, by Robyn’s partner David, are just wonderful.
- Terra Nova. All about games, game culture, game worlds… What’s not to like?
- Languagehat. All about languages. Confession: I wish this was my blog.
- Sorrow at Sill’s Bend. Written by Lucy Tartan in Melbourne, all about her life. Recently I enjoyed her commentary on the old newspapers (December 1953 – January 1954) found when she was cleaning out her new house. I also like the occasional appearances of her cat, Basil.
Library-types, what five non-lib blogs do you like? Non-library-types, if you read five library-related blogs, what are they? (Lots of hyphens!)